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In China if you are homeless the cops pick you up and say if you work as a street cleaner you will get a home in excange.
If you don't like that arrangement you dissappear.
In case your source for that is serpentza, then you should check this reply with more links debunking this guy and his racist views.
Obviously China is not a utopia and with a billion people things will be bad at some place or another. But cherry picked examples and wild accusations like "they will dissappear" is just anti-China propaganda.
I went to Shanghai last year and there were, in fact, homeless people around. Not many at all, but I was surprised to see any.
Serpentza is compelling and interesting on a cursory glance. And I don't know if he is consciously racist or how far his biases go. The bigger problem is that there are "algorithmic forces" shaping content and content creators.
The content creators wants to make money, needs to make money. They will experiment with various things. They make compelling content, don't have time to deeply study history or sociology or economics, only enough to project an image. Psychological needs from narcissism might make them unable to resist rationalizations in exchanges for clicks.
There have been quite a few cases with supposedly liberal or leftist icons suddenly turning to reactionary rhetoric. It's hard to understand and somewhat traumatizing. Recently TYT. I think the moral of the story is that much of it is subconsciously performative and not well thought out beliefs. And economic reality makes ideology a lie.
I think Serpentza fits in there somewhere, if he's not outright paid indirectly by the state department to spread propaganda.
I don't know who that is.
I read news articles.
The news articles I read said they offer homeless people housing for work, if they refuse they are "reeducated" which is one of the many ways people dissapear in the China meat grinder.
Yes because they kill the ones who don't agree to work for housing
Thanks for helping explain how homelessness works in china you dumb bot
You have no actual evidence for this assertion besides your brain on McCarthyism. I think you start from your preconceptions and then work backwards, solely within your mind palace.
Yeah no, there's decades of China's documented oppression of its people.
Sorry you are too stupid or proud or whatever to engage with the real world like a big boy.
It sure sucks when you can't just ban all dissent!
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